[arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update

[Christian Hesse]

Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> on Wed, 2013/01/16 10:18:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
> 
> > Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> on Tue, 2013/01/15 21:57:
> > > [...]
> > > If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute
> > this,
> > > I would really appreciate it.
> >
> > I do have the same drive and I updated the firmware booting the image off
> > grub. All just need is a working grub (2.0 here) installation and syslinux
> > (for memdisk). (Though doing it with syslinux should work as well.)
> >
> > The grub.cfg should have a config section that looks like this:
> >
> > menuentry "Update Crucial M4" {
> >     set root='(hd0,1)'
> >     linux16 /memdisk floppy
> >     initrd16 /boot2880.img
> > }
> >
> > If the files are in place (probably in /boot/) the image should boot and
> > you
> > can successfully update the drives firmware.
> >
> > Mounting the boot image, modifying it or installing freedos is not
> > necessary.
> >
> 
> Thanks Christian - it sounds like you are running grub off the system
> already installed to the internal drive?  If that is the case then maybe I
> will have to install arch to the internal drive first and then add in the
> grub entries to execute the firmware update and boot to them?
> 
> However it would be nice to be able to run grub (2) off a usbkey and
> execute the firmware update before installing arch to the internal drives
> which then already have the updated ssd firmware.

Does not matter where grub is installed to. It just has to find and boot the
files.
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